What does the narrator mean when she says "i can see a story developing behind her eyes", in the story "museum indians" in lines 51-59?

the narrator means she can see her imagining the story, or developing a story to go with the scene

She means that her mom is thinking about the story

Explanation:

The expression behind someone's eyes means that there is a mental process to remember or create a story coming from her mother about the reason why Picasso was blue. The expression " she relates anecdotes I will never find in books" supports the idea that everything comes from her brain and not from books.

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chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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